Government, Religion, Property, Books, Are Nothing But

If It Were Possible To Make An Accurate Calculation Of The Evils Which Police Regulations Occasion, And Of Those Which They Prevent, The Number Of The Former Would, In All Cases, Exceed That Of The Latter.

To Judge A Man Means Nothing More Than To Ask: What Content Does He Give To The Form Of Humanity? What Concept Should We Have Of Humanity If He Were Its Only Representative?

Every Man, However Good He May Be, Has A Yet Better Man Dwelling In Him, Which Is Properly Himself, But To Whom Nevertheless He Is Often Unfaithful. It Is To This Interior And Less Mutable Being That We Should Attach Ourselves, Not To Be Changeable, Every-day Man.

Work Is As Much A Necessity To Man As Eating And Sleeping. Even Those Who Do Nothing That Can Be Called Work Still Imagine They Are Doing Something. The World Has Not A Man Who Is An Idler In His Own Eyes.

It Is Resignation And Contentment That Are Best Calculated To Lead Us Safely Through Life. Whoever Has Not Sufficient Power To Endure Privations, And Even Suffering, Can Never Feel That He Is Armor Proof Against Painful Emotions,--nay, He Must Attribute To Himself, Or At Least To The Morbid Sensitiveness Of His Nature, Every Disagreeable Feeling He May Suffer.